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Chenin Blanc Rondevlei
This Certified Heritage Vineyard, planted in 1984, produces a characterful, idiosyncratic wine from sandy soils to the west of Malmesbury, close to the Atlantic. David Sadie describes it as ‘an oasis in the desert'. Harvested in three separate pickings, this is aromatically elusive at first, with a mineral, stony nose and notes of white pepper and green pear. It opens with time in the glass to reveal green banana, mango, cherry stones, crystallised lime and a touch of lemongrass. The palate is shaped by edgy, nervous acidity, with a lightly briny note and a hint of capers on the finish. A little spiky right now, and slightly lean in the middle, but intriguing and rewarding to follow in the glass.